Forecast to Schedule Business Lead - Boise, ID

Simplot•Boise, ID

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The Forecast to Schedule Business Process Lead is responsible for leading the design, alignment, implementation, and adoption of end-to-end business processes for major enterprise transformation programs. The role represents the business, makes and coordinates process decisions on its behalf, and partners with IT functional teams, subject matter experts, change management, training, data, reporting, and leadership stakeholders to support delivery of future-state capabilities. The role assesses current-state processes, defines future-state requirements, supports solution design, identifies change impacts, coordinates testing and training activities, and helps transition the organization to sustainable post-go-live operations. It serves as the primary business representative for the assigned process area and supports implementation, adoption, and ongoing improvement.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree required.
Five or more years of related experience required.
Strong understanding of business processes, process design, data, reporting, controls, and cross-functional dependencies.
Demonstrated experience influencing stakeholders, leading teams, managing priorities, and driving decisions in challenging environments.
Excellent communication skills, including the ability to explain complex business, system, process, or data topics to non-technical stakeholders.
Strong analytical, critical-thinking, problem-solving, and business acumen skills.
Ability to manage changing priorities, ambiguity, competing stakeholder needs, and evolving program requirements.
Ability to collaborate effectively across business, IT, functional, data, reporting, training, and change teams.
Ability to define a future-state process vision and connect business needs to enterprise transformation outcomes.
Ability to design processes and solutions that support end-user needs and business outcomes.
Ability to take ownership of process-area decisions, deliverables, risks, issue resolution, and readiness.

Nice To Haves

Master’s degree preferred, depending on the business area and role scope.
Eight or more years of related experience preferred for more complex operational or enterprise process areas.
Experience with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning, SAP Analytics Cloud, enterprise systems, or large-scale business transformation preferred.
Experience coordinating SMEs and partnering with IT, organizational change management, HR, training, and functional teams preferred.

Responsibilities

Map current end-to-end business processes, reporting capabilities, data needs, handoffs, exceptions, controls, and decision points.
Define business process requirements aligned with organizational goals, objectives, and transformation priorities.
Identify minimum viable go-live process capabilities and future roadmap opportunities.
Partner with data, reporting, and functional teams on data profiling, cleansing, process scoping, reporting definition, and design decisions.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define future-state business processes, capabilities, reports, analytics, and system-enabled solutions.
Work with SAP S/4HANA, SAP Integrated Business Planning, IT, and functional teams on process design, solution features, reporting requirements, dashboards, data definitions, and business outcomes.
Provide business feedback on solutions in development, identify gaps, support gap disposition, and help determine required process, policy, or procedure changes.
Stay current on industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies relevant to the assigned process area.
Represent the business for the assigned process area, facilitate decisions, and escalate issues where appropriate.
Build and coordinate a network of subject matter experts to support design, validation, testing, training, and readiness activities.
Update stakeholders, functional leaders, and program leadership on progress, risks, issues, decisions, and readiness.
Influence stakeholders toward a common future-state vision while balancing global design needs with practical business requirements.
Coordinate SMEs and end users to complete testing, validate process flows, support defect resolution, and sign off on outcomes.
Partner with IT and business functional teams to validate process flows, handoffs, exceptions, approvals, and system behavior.
Collaborate with product, training, change, and end-user teams to develop and deliver training and readiness activities.
Support cutover activities, master data validation, end-user readiness, and transition planning for go-live.
Partner with change leaders to drive adoption of new tools, processes, policies, and ways of working.
Establish and support a super-user or process-owner network to sustain the solution after go-live.
Identify enhancements, process improvements, and roadmap opportunities based on business needs, solution performance, and stakeholder feedback.
Support post-go-live monitoring of process effectiveness, data quality, system usage, and adherence to designed processes.